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OtHanski t1_j100lyt wrote

How about we don't allow blatant commercial posts by companies on this subreddit?

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cneskey t1_j1fllgc wrote

I don't like commercial things in general but I do like the idea of people getting paid for doing research and visualization instead of having to keep shelling them out for free.

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vk6flab t1_j10gzse wrote

Why not? A good visualisation is a good visualisation, regardless of who produced it for what reason.

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ACH-S t1_j10lgug wrote

It's not really a useful visualisation though and the title of the submission is a bit scarier than it should be. Some mismatch between what happens in the industry and what is covered in the news is expected as "miscellenaous errors" is probably not as exciting for most readers as system intrusion. If you look at the mismatch with academia, things get worse: it's not super clear if those keywords were cited as examples in the academic papers, or if they were the principal topic the papers were addressing, or wheter they were used as the easiest benchmark/baseline to show an idea works etc...

Without explaining some factors like these, the figure doesn't really teach us anything and given the title, it looks like they just want to click bait you to go to their website.

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vk6flab t1_j10m3e2 wrote

I understand your points, but that could be fixed with enforcing the data source requirements.

So far I've not seen any data sources for this post.

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cneskey t1_j1flxuj wrote

Those are good points. They are covered in the page cited in the infographic. I like to include all detail within a visualization but then people tell us the graphic is "too busy".

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OtHanski t1_j10hqn8 wrote

We've got ads on web pages, ads in phone notifications, ads in paid subscription TV shows, do we really also need the OC to be ads too?

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vk6flab t1_j10in45 wrote

If you use that as a metric this sub will die. Everybody is selling something. A visualisation is by nature telling a story. That's its entire purpose. If we start limiting what story is allowed, we might as well close down the sub.

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OtHanski t1_j10jfve wrote

There's a pretty easy distinction to make: "Posts that can be considered advertising for a for-profit company are not allowed".

Want to sell a story just cause you think it's interesting? Sure. Make a post because you want my money? Fuck off.

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